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I Used the Meta Ray-Ban Display Glasses, and They Offer 2 Breakthroughs to Take Us Beyond Smartphones
The $799 Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses use a translucent heads-up display and EMG wristband for gesture control, initially launching in select U.S. stores before expanding internationally.
- Meta unveiled the Meta Ray-Ban Display during Connect, priced at $799 and arriving September 30 in a limited number of U.S. brick-and-mortar stores.
- Meta frames the launch as a step toward replacing phones, with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg saying glasses are ideal for AI and part of Meta's vision for AR glasses as a mainstream computing platform, detailed on the Access podcast Thursday, September 18th.
- The glasses feature a display in the right lens, a 12-megapixel camera with a 122-degree lens, a geometric waveguide display offering a 20-degree field of view and 42 pixels per degree, plus six hours of battery life.
- Meta limited initial production to about a couple hundred thousand units, some demos at the Meta Connect event faltered, and analysts expect modest early sales targeting industry analysts and early adopters.
- Starting on October 21, Meta will widen availability with the updated Ray-Ban Meta priced at $379, while IDC projects 39.2% growth to 14.3 million AR units in 2025 and competitors like Google, Snap, and Apple plan new AR glasses.
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On September 17, Mark Zuckerberg presented the new Meta Ray-Ban display glasses, which can be controlled with hand gestures. What is known about them.
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For years, the tech industry has been working on ordinary looking glasses that can display information. Meta is the first of the great rivals to launch such a device on the market.
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